There is a saying, “It takes one to know one.” I am a convicted felon, former CPA, and former criminal CFO of Crazy Eddie. Today, I teach law enforcement agencies and professionals how to identify fraud and train them to catch the crooks. This blog investigates white-collar crime, securities fraud, accounting irregularities, corruption, and other related topics. Accounting irregularities investigated by me are referred to appropriate government agencies as a whistleblower.

"The Antar empire was crumbling and the government was moving in for the kill when Sam E. Antar, the chief financial officer for Crazy Eddie consumer electronics chain, decided it was time to cooperate.There was no sudden enlightenment, no overwhelming remorse. Antar just didn't want to go to prison."I didn't find God on the footsteps of the courthouse," Antar said. "I did the cowardly thing. I went to the U.S. government and said, "I don't want to go to jail for 30 years.' "

However, another part of my decision was not published and also clearly must be understood. I decided to cooperate (yes, for the reasons above) only after I found out that my Uncle Sam M. Antar and his children (Mitchell and Allen) were trying to set Eddie and I up to take the blame for the Crazy Eddie fraud.

After finding out from me that his own father and brothers were laying the blame on us, Eddie told me, "You are on your own" and eventually skipped town.

Abandoned by Eddie and being set up by his family I was left with no other choice.

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“White collar crime is more brutal than violence crime. The actions of one or a few corrupt public officials and corrupt businessmen affect the livelihoods of thousands of people. Treat them with the same disdain as we do treat serial killers because white collar criminals are economic predators. We are serial economic predators." -- Testimony of Sam Antar